Rapetosaurus
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rapetosaurus (/rəˌpeɪtuːˈsɔːrəs/ rə-PAY-too-SOR-əs[1]) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that lived in Madagascar from 70 to 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Only one species, Rapetosaurus krausei, has been identified.
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Rapetosaurus | |
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Juvenile skeleton, Field Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Sauropoda |
Clade: | †Macronaria |
Clade: | †Titanosauria |
Clade: | †Lithostrotia |
Genus: | †Rapetosaurus Curry Rogers & Forster, 2001 |
Species: | †R. krausei |
Binomial name | |
†Rapetosaurus krausei Curry Rogers & Forster, 2001 | |
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Like other sauropods, Rapetosaurus was a quadrupedal herbivore; it is calculated to have reached lengths of 15 metres (49 ft).